1. Bigger Government. It has become much more visible as a result of the W(corona)-crisis, and as such should be welcome if it means a more open, more receptive, more responsive and more efficient government. Otherwise, we may be heading towards “1984” Big Brother, fully armed with all high tech and fintech, AI, machine learning […]
In early 2009, when the global financial meltdown was unravelling, the Director of the US National Intelligence, Dennis C. Blair, submitted to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence a regular annual report “Annual Threat Assessment of the Intelligence Community”. Its main theme, of course, was the destructive impact of global economic crisis and its geopolitical […]
Amid some apocalyptic tunes coming from here and there, most of us still continue to live and act under the assumption that there will be “tomorrow”. And most of us, some intuitively and some consciously, just cannot accept the notion that, after a good and uncertain while, this tomorrow will be business as usual. Here’s […]
As many analysts will be trying now to decipher the real outcome of the summit (please see video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-Xw0_2eMJg and transcript at https://www.npr.org/2018/07/16/629462401/transcript-president-trump-and-russian-president-putins-joint-press-conference?t=1531774783621), let’s note that there have been some interesting and visible “movements” on contentious Ukraine gas transit issue. First and most obvious conclusion – there will be probably no further US sanctions […]
Gazprom’s “Game of Poker” There are a few visible “poker game”moves undertaken by both sides as well as by third parties in the post-arbitration period: Gazprom’s seeming unwillingness to pay what is due to Ukraine ($2.56 billion). Some experts, however, point out that the likelihood of payment is still rather high. Apart from possible reputational risks, Gazprom’s […]
“Gas War” between Russia and Ukraine in the Geopolitical Context Recently, the future of Russian gas transit through Ukraine has grown into one of the hottest and most contentious geopolitical issues. Problems that always existed between Ukraine and Russia in the gas sector have become particularly acute after annexation of Crimea and armed aggression in […]
The article deals with the analysis of basic geostrategic priorities of Ukraine that have to become the basis of the realization of geostrategy’s development of the country and assist the forming of its international subjectivity. The influence of foreign-policy threats has been found out on modern state of transformation of bilateral and multilateral relations with global geopolitical players and […]
This is a short version of the article published by the journal Studies in Applied Economics of Johns Hopkins University’s Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise. Please read the full text here: http://krieger.jhu.edu/iae/economics/index.html. There has been an ongoing academic and public debate as to whether central banks in developing countries with weak […]
